Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.

You must make your own opportunities.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

If the Bible is God's word, and we believe it, let us handle it with reverence.

We just move from one addiction to the other, choose your addiction!

Don’t lose faith in the people.

We see what we are only through reflection and thus the more our reflections occur, the less our mistakes will be!

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

I think in life, people know what they want. They want to survive, they want to have a family. They want to procreate because it's in the genetic law.

Our preachers weren't always right, but they were never in doubt.

Privilege is invisible to those who have it.

O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.