Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
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.
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Fate loves the fearless.
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.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
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.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
