We are judged on our actions – not our intentions. We may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard boiled egg. 562
By a progressive I do not mean a man who is ready to move, but a man who knows where he is going when he moves. 482
I no doubt deserved my eneI no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.mies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends. 812
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an “Honest Man.” 886
The man that lays his hand upon a woman, save in the way of kindness, is a wretch whom ‘t were gross flattery to name a coward 483
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one. 545