Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that Book and who instinctively put into practice what he had been taught therein.

It is not the critic who counts

I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.

Property belongs to man and not man to property.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.