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.

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

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.

I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am.

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.

Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible. The more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away.