Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.