You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.