"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president."

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness."

"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do."

"A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week."

"It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me."

"I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."

"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."

"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."