I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

A fair character is a fair fortune.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others, than you can by what others say about him!

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.

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

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

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

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

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

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.