Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it; but I ascribe to years their share in it also.

I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied and to do the most good for which it is capable.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.