I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.

If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.

The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.

If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.