A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

It is true, that all married men have their own way, but the trouble is they don't all have their own way of having it.

Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.

We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

One of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that don't have anything to do with it.

Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!