Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. 

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. 

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Rain can be a boon or a curse depending upon its timing.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Man is a universe within himself.

He would make a lovely corpse.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.