I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end.

The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin in the volume required to serve the needs of the People, some other basis for the issue of currency must be developed, and some means other than that of convertibility into coin must be developed to prevent undue fluctuation in the value of paper currency or any other substitute for money intrinsic value that may come into use.