“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

“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.”

“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...”

“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.”

“I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.”

“A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.”

“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”