Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

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

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.