Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

Marriage is a great institution.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.