In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!
The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.
It will be celebrated. . . with pomp and parade. . . bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.
We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.
Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality. . . plead the promise in a truthful, business-like way. . . Ask for what you want, because the Lord has promised it. Believe that you have the blessing, and go forth to your work in full assurance of it. Go from your knees singing, because the promise is fulfilled: thus will your prayer be answered. . . the strength [not length] of your prayer. . . wins. . . God; and the strength of prayer lies in your faith in the promise which you pleaded before the Lord.
What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.
I'm not good, Mac. Never have been. ' What-true confession time? my eyes tease. Don't need it. 'I want what I want and I take it. ' Is he warning me? What could he possibly threaten me with now? 'There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.
I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it.