Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.