The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.