"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."

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

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts."

"I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other."

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

"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention."

"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Not many people know this ... but I happen to be famous."

"A woman's whole life is a history of the affections."

"When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning."