My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!

Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.