The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

I am a poor hater.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.