Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

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.

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

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.

Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.