Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.