A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.