Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.