Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
Children are God’s Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.