But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.