We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.