We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.