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

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.