The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.