“No honest man will argue on every side.”

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

Kindness will always attract kindness.

The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

Opportunity has power over all things.

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.

Gentle time will heal our sorrows.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.