Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Right reason is stronger than force.

Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

I just hitch up my girdle and let 'er fly.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world.

There is a limit to how much you can cut but there is no limit to how much you can earn.

Death ends a life, it does not end a relationship.