"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."

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

"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."

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

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

"Truth is a pathless land."

"Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame."

"I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."

"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both."

"Future is in the sky."

"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."