A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.