Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

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

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.