There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.