The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed ... to live by the light that I have.

Let it be public, full, and fair. No cliqueism or cheatery about it.

The stern compression of circumstances, the twinges of adversity, the spur of slights and taunts in early years, are needed to evoke that ruthless fixity of purpose and tenacious wit without which great actions are seldom accomplished.

A nation without a conscience is a nation without a soul. A nation without a soul is a nation that cannot live.