My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.

I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.