“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.”

“Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. . . . If, today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us'; but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.”

“I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...”

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”

“Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”

“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”