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

"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."

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

"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."

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

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

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

"Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him."

"I bet the human brain is a kludge."

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

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground."

"By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least."