Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.
Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.
I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me.
A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.
I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I’m too lazy to stop.
The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.
There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.
Everybody likes a compliment.
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Why don’t I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.