It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

The States are nations.

If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and duty which they impose upon us. We hold these institutions of government, religion, and learning, to be transmitted, as well as enjoyed. We are in the line of conveyance, through which whatever has been obtained by the spirit and efforts of our ancestors is to be communicated to our children.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.