I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.

Towering genius distains a beaten path.

You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.

Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?

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

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.