The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.

Author: James Russell Lowell

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.