What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?

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 shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain," with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit with humble but fearless confidence my own fate and the future destinies of my country.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

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

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.