"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

"I have great respect for the Christian religion. I have been a regular attendant at church for many years, and I believe in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity."

"Our republican robe is soiled and trailed in the dust. Let us repurify it. Let us turn and wash it white, in the spirit, if not the blood, of the Revolution. Let us make our name of American, the kind…"

"I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."