Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

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.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.