When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

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.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense.

I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.