In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless

Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Christmas is over and Business is Business.