It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could as little make itself, that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator.

Duty is ours, results are God's.

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.

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.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

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.