Justice delayed is justice denied.

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

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

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

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.