The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.  

This is a world of action, and not for mopping and drowning in.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. 

Religion and slavery are incompatible.