The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency [private bank-created, interest-bearing debt], and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.

A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.