The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs.

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

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.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.