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.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

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

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

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

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.