Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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

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

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

While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purposes of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.