The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?

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