If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.

If all men were just there would be no need of valor.

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.

I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.

If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.

Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.

Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

It's mighty funny. The end of time has just begun.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.

Language is the archives of history.

Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.