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

"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."

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

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

"Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare"

"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."

"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."

"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them."

"The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things."

"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free."

"TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose."

"What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?"