The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.

God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.