All is race - there is no other truth.

A person's fate is their own temper.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.