The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.