The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

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.

Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.