Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Everybody likes a compliment.

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.