To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.