“No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.”

“Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.”

“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ”

“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. Allow me to assure you that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.”

“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

“I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”