An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.

And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.