It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?