The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

If your trust is in man, your joy will soon be buried in the cemetery. If you hope is in cars, your happiness will soon be found in the mechanic shop. You are missing it if man is your hope.

Our problems don’t stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.

Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them.

We must always have old memories and young hopes.

We can start by living by the Spirit while we stop following the heart of discontentment and doubt.

Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.

Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!

I'm not so much of a joiner.

Confidence begets confidence. Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone. Courage in danger is half the battle.