Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.

You can’t change the past. But with God’s help you can change the future. No matter what your life has been like so far, God wants to put your feet on a new path . . . a better path . . . His path.

Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

Reining in the regulatory state would have a massive impact on economic freedom going forward.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.