If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleve

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.