I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.

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

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.