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

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

People are just as happy as they choose to be.

When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.