Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

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

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.