A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart – more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi – more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton.

I would like to be with you, but I do love my loneliness too.

When you find yourself overpowered as it were by melancholy the best way is to go out and do something.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.

I was taught to work hard and to be honest, and that's what I try to do, so that's it.

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

If I didn't believe it in my own mind, I never would have seen it.

The fear is that talking back, that engaging at all, is to open the door for god-knows-what.

The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.