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 am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.