The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

If you have never failed you have never lived.

You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.