Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious ….

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

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign..

I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away--it is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach e….

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 ….

Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow gr….

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

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

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

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

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..

I answer not, and I return no more..

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream..