Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.

In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.

I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet.

That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.

Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?