Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

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

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.