A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.

All of our lives were a story

If I am right Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach my heart To find that better way!

New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.

Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .