It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.

But the impressions which the morning makes vanish with its dews, and not even the most "persevering mortal" can preserve the memory of its freshness to midday.

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.