If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

If you have never failed you have never lived.

Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time.

This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.