War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.