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.

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.