A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.