There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.