If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.