Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens.

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.