"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness."

"Those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest; and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly."

"Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life."

"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."

"People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done."

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American."