As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

Every head should be cultivated.

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

Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

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