"I am always hearing of the good old times. I wish to Heaven the good old times had never come back again."

"I have been a-thinking, and I have been a-thinking, and I have been a-thinking, and I have come to the conclusion that I am a-thinking a good deal."

"The never-failing beauty of the spring!"

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for someone else."

"I have no faith in the wisdom of any government that is not based upon the popular will."