It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
Achievement has no color
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purp...
I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
I have great respect for the semicolon it is a mighty handy little fellow.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.