Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.