Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Where there is reverence there is fear but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong, and multiplies instead of indemnifying losses.

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

No one can understand my Mystery. The best you can do is to get immersed in it. It is no use your arguing about pros and cons, dive and know the depth, eat and know the taste.

The higher the sun ariseth the less shadow doth he cast, even so the greater is the goodness the less doth it covet praise, yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

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