The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

I answer not, and I return no more.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.

The world’s sewage system threatens to contaminate the stream of Christian thought. Satan will contest every hour you spend in Bible reading or prayer.

One might have to be a little ruthless to seize back control of one's life, don't you think?

I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.

I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.

Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.

Beauty is not in outer perfection but rather in the amount of light we allow to shine through the very thing obscuring our souls.

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.

Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity.