You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.

I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Your rights end where my nose begins.

The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.