"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy."

"Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare"

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

"Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."

"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."

"Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong."

"'Opposites are cures for opposites."

"Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly."

"There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go."

"Who could follow Carson? Well, believe me, somebody can - and will."

"The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully."

"Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts."