He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.

Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.