Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.

Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of God, the moral ruler of the universe, and a rule of right and wrong, of just and unjust, binding upon man, preceding all institutions of human society and government.

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.

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

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.