"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it."

"Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support."

"Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated."

"The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough."

"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there."

"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman."

"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."

"We do not look in our great cities for our best morality."