It is only error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Successful minds work like a gimlet to a single point.

It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Doubt whom you will but never yourself.

Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength and they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. They are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely and too much is not enough if expended foolishly.

Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

I consider myself an aware person who is sensitive to injustice.

Too late, too late, juice pouring does not a kind soul make, and I killed you.

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.

As a kid, there [on TV] were things I wasn't aware of - insecurities while transition from teen to adult. When I was around 17 and 18, I started seeing the benefits of this world.

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.