In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark.
Some people have me believe, when they talk with me, that I have influenced their lives in many ways.
Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
These are the times that try men's souls.
A lion chased me up a tree and I enjoyed the view from the top.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
“We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness”
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
The world may or may not be with our purpose. But its not totally without some kind of magic.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.