It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.