Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

This is no time to make new enemies.

It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.