He who is untrue to his own cause cannot command the respect of others.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men—the other 999 follow women.

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

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

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

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.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.

Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

For truth is precious and divine—too rich a perl for carnal swine.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.