...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

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

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.