Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.

The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.

It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much an object with the purchaser, as the price.

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.