You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.