A friend is one who has the same enemies you have.

Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.

The Lord prefers common looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

When I'm ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say, and two thirds of my time thinking about him and what he is going to say.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.

With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow be avoiding today.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.