We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.