I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.

The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.

Wake up, dream, have the ambition to do the things you have always dreamed of, go farther than any man has ever been before, go as far as it is possible for any man to go, what have you got to lose? Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.