“War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.”

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

One of the things I learned in law school is that there’s nothing wrong or undesirable.

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.