Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Be Vast, Solitary, Down to Earth and Firm

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.

True repentance is to cease from sin.

We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.

We should show Washington how we do it in North Dakota. I'm running to stop the over-regulating of our economy and start growing it.

Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]

People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things.

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

There is no such thing as stress; only people thinking stressful thoughts.