Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]

Man is a tool-making animal