The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.