A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government.
I grow daily to honor facts more and more and theory less and less.
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is...
All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer but rather what they miss.
If you can walk you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.
Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith.
In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
