Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

She was not for everyone but she was for me.

Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.

It's embarrassing to be human.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.

I love Austin. It's great here. I don't mind the heat.

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.

I had both male and female heroes.