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.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

He who represents himself has a fool for a client

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.