We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we do care for the newspaper.At any meeting of politicianshow impertinent it would be to quote from the Bible! how pertinent to quote from a newspaper or from the Constitution!

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!