But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.

When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer.