“The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder 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.”

“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”

“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.”

“If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.”

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.”

“If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.”