Tight pants are just uncomfortable.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

The southerner talks music.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.