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

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.