Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

I answer not, and I return no more.

Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.

I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers hold the earth in place and prevent its soluble components from washing to the wasting sea.