Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's God...Our illogical God is all-powerful in name, but impotent in fact; the Great Spirit is not all-powerful, but does the very best he can for his injun and does it free of charge

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

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

Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.