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

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

For when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.

Experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it.

There’s a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.