“A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.”
“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
“I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”
“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
“No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.”
“Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.”