The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

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

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

When I am getting 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 about him and what he is going to say.