"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy."

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

"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."

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

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

"Man cannot aspire if he looks down; if he rises, he must look up."

"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."

"Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something."

"I have loved like a child collecting shells along the shore line, discarding one shell for another of seemingly more outward beauty with no knowledge of the pearls that were hidden within."

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."

"Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline."