It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

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

The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.