An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse and a few are better than their fathers.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

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