No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

People are just as happy as they choose to be.

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.