Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.