...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.