Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.

Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.

Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

I know you exist not just because your eyes flyand give light to things like an open window

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.

We conservatives don't have a corner on saying no. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.

It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.