The difference between landscape and landscape is small but there's a great difference in the beholders.
My evening visitors if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
We look wishfully to emergencies to eventful revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.
Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
Do the thing and you will have the power.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
Sorrow makes us all children again.
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here."
Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.