The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.