The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.

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.

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.