"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

"I could not feel that I had done my duty to the country if I should permit myself to be prevailed upon to make any such appointment."

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser—in fees, expenses, and waste of time."

"I think I am a pretty good judge of men, and I have found that all men are more or less corrupt, and that the only honest men are those who have not been tempted."

"I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel."