There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.

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.

I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, "Never give up hope, spring will come.

Gather all your effort to achieve a single goal and you will be bound to succeed

Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.

At any given moment you have power to decide how your story is going to end

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is not according to what he has.

As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.

Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.