The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.