You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

My best training came from my father.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.