We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency [private bank-created, interest-bearing debt], and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.