A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

Benjamin Rush

Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger

Sometimes you have to learn to love what's good for you.

Bella, there's a part of you that loves me.

It's the strange world.' 'The strangest.

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there.

Darkness is so predictable.

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.