Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

My policy is to have no policy.