The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.

...what we need is action - action!

Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends...every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.