My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.