It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

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.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.