"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy."

"Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty.'"

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

"Public speaking is very easy."

"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"

"We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning."

"Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them."

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

"The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another."