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

I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.

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.

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

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

Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.