Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

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.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.