Too big to cry too young to laugh.

As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.