I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.