What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist