A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

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

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

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.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.