It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.