The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.