Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.