"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."

"Put out the light."

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

"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."

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty.'"

"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness."

"In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell."

"Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception."

"It takes 15,000 nuts to hold a car together, but only one to spread it all over the highway."

"When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us."

"If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks."

"A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue."