We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

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

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

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Common sense is very uncommon.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one.”"Don't vote. It just encourages them....

To believe that there are difficult or unreachable things, doesn't change the nature of those things, only our position towards them

We never touch but at points.

Never argue with a profit.

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

You might be a redneck if you hammer bottle caps into the frame of your front door to make it look nice.

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.