No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum.

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

Our federal Union: it must be preserved.