Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.