"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty."

"He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."

"You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time."

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

"I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise."

"An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so."

"Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven."

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further."

"When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words."

"For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable."