What i value more than all things, good humor.

I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind.

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.