By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

He that's secure is not safe.

What is best for people is what they do for themselves.