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

"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!"

"Put out the light."

"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."

"The race is not [always] to the swift, nor the battle to the strong."

"If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody."

"Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together."

"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes"

"How far your eyes may pierce, i cannot tell; striving to better, oft we mar what's well."

"O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?"