Spreuken over Man

You who are passing men sullenly upon the street, not speaking to them out of some silly spite, and yet knowing that it would fill you with shame and remorse if you heard that one of those men were dead tomorrow morning; you who are letting your neighbor starve, till you hear that he is dying of starvation; or letting your friend's heart ache for a word of appreciation or sympathy, which you mean to give him someday

It is no mean glory to have found favour with the leaders of men. It is not everyone that can get to Corinth.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.