[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.

It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year

It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those who have risen to eminence by their profound wisdom and integrity have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God.

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.