Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

All my successes have been built on my failures.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.