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

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.

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

I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.

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.

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

I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels.