My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.

We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.

I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection; that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.

The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.

Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.

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