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.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will' undertake its safety, and nothing can save it, if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

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.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.