Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source by their very nature is in the people. The people have to bear their own responsibilities. There is no method by which that burden can be shifted to the government. It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
I cannot think of anything characteristically American that was not produced by toil. I cannot think of any American man or woman preeminent in the history of our nation who did not reach their place through toil. I cannot think of anything that represents the American people as a whole so adequately as honest work.
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
Good enough to tweet, not to say.
Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.
To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.
If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.