As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.
~ John Jay Chapman
We cannot hand our faith to one another. ... Even in the Middle Ages when faith was theoretically uniform it was always practically individual.
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
