Talkers are no good doers.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

You don’t just luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.

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

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

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.

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.