Great joy has in it the sense of immortality: the triumphant moments of our life may have been only moments, but they were moments of eternity.

I could never see why a man who is not free to open his mouth to drink should be free to open it to talk. Talking does far more direct harm to other people.

People forget how to be grateful unless they learn how to be humble.

One of the most necessary and most neglected points, about the story called history, is the fact that the story is not finished.

There is a great man who makes every man feel small.

But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.