He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all.

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'