It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy and will remain a 15-year-old boy until they die.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.

If you ask what's best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat

The end crowneth the work.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.