One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.