James A. Garfield

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.