The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible

When I spoke to the Haller family to tell them the resolution was going to be passed, they were shocked and overwhelmed. A busload of descendants came in for the day when it was passed. It meant so much to them.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.