Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

I'm collecting for God. Can you spare a smile?

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

a book is a box of words until you open it.

Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

An annibabtist is a thing I am not a member of.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.