Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.