"Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best."

"He who despises himself, respects himself as one who despises."

"Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us."

"I am from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."

"If you have no confidence in [yourself] you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started."

"For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root."

"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."

"Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else."

"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all."

"A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care."

"Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ."

"Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side."