I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.