"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."

"We are always the same age inside."

"One must dare to be happy."

"The priority is a sage, inspiring, leader-by-example who is unyielding in principle and valor."

"He is always missed any time he misses a game. There is no doubt we have missed him on a couple of occasions this series,"

"A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool."

"Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world."

"The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph."

"Worry is the intrest paid by those who borrow trouble."

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."

"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."

"Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth."

"Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages."

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."

"Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice."

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."

"99% of failures come from people who make excuses."

"There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."

"Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

"It is better to be alone than in bad company."