I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.