We know the redemption must come.

I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

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.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.