“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?