“All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.”

“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent”

“And we are put on earth a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love”

“Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators”

“The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for”

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes”