Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.

I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.

If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.