Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.