In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

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.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.