Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.