Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Failure is part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.