The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it (life), whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to 'glorify God and enjoy him forever.'

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and habit, and they cannot conceive of a man who is actuated by higher motives than they are. Accordingly they pronounce this man insane, for they know that they could never act as he does, as long as they are themselves.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.