The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me --I always feel that they have not said enough.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.