Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

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

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

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

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.