It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer - to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of the future

Mind is the great lever of all things.

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

The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

There is always room at the top.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint