The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

However, our fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are cast more and more into the centre. Men naturally, though feebly, seek this alliance, and their actions faintly foretell it.