Bad promises are better broken than kept.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.