There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

States, as great engines, move slowly.

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

We don't have to go around as the Protestant reformation did, or as the socialist revolution did, and execute each other as soon as we are successful - assuming we'll ever be successful.

What about volcanoes?" "What about them?" "All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true.

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.