I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.