One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

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.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail I shall succeed.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.