Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.

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

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.