At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States – old as well as new – North as well as South.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They’re trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.