Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.