Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.

The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.