"What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?"

"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."

"I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come."

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts."

"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."

"To do two things at once is to do neither."

"Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character."

"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."

"A filthy mouth will not utter decent language."

"Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."