"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

"I am nothing, but truth is everything. I know I cannot be wrong; and yet, how many think I am!"

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

"Permit me to say that, in my humble judgment, I never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence."

"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."