The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

If you don’t do it, nothing’s possible.

Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.

If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome.

No matter what one does, regardless of failure

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

All that I am my mother made me.

The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.

Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.