I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

You cannot fail unless you quit.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations ... The fate of humanity is in his hands.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.