Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.

The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

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

Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it and gives it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the minds and opinions of the age.

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

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest