But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Gratitude is the heart's first language.

God’s followers need to know the truth He sets forth in His Word so that we can confidently discern between His truth and Satan’s lies.

It’s perhaps more laudable to simply keep heading out into the world, than always tilting to leave one’s mark on it.

Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.

I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way.

When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing