Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.