“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”
“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
“The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.”
“The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”
“If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.”
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
“My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.”
“Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.”
“I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.”
“Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.”
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”
“Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.”
“A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”
“If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.”
“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.”
“I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.”
“I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.”
“I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.”
“When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”
“The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”
“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.”
“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
“People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.”