Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

May you live all the days of your life.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.