Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

The main purpose of a church is to bring relevance to people and make sure everyone discovers their calling

Wisdom is not always discovered in a book, true wisdom is discovered in the knowing that you know nothing.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.

I have to look out for the shareholder’s interests, and I’m the largest shareholder.

Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.