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

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

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.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.