Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.
Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.
Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.
Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm
A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
Most people are as happy as they want to be.
The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
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