There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.

Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.