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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.