Whatever you are, be a good one.

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

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

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare—I have no use for him, either.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

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.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

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.

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.