The health you enjoy is largely your choice

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.