Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations - the relations between the creature and his Creator.

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

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

Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.