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.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

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.

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

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

On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.

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