I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.