“It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.”

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?

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.