I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.