The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'