If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.