"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"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"

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

"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness."

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

"What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm."

"Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process."

"Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."

"In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap."

"Die, but do not retreat."

"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week."