The idea of infidelity [a disbelief in the inspiration of the Scriptures or the divine origin of Christianity] cannot be treated with too much resentment or too much horror. The man who can think of it with patience is a traitor in his heart and ought to be execrated [denounced] as one who adds the deepest hypocrisy to the blackest treason.

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.