[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.