It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan..

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable..

Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pas….

It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this ….

At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain them….

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute..

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory..

Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening..

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it..

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

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up..

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day..

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or ….

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show.

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose….

The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation….

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devi….

The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full an….

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos..

Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real polit….

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