I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Common sense is very uncommon.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

Focus on miracles brings about self-gratification.

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.

It's not showing off if you back it up.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

Recording is best used as a pretty good reason to hang with the family of friends globally scattered.

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.