Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.