From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

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

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.

The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Savior of the world.

This mode of electioneering suited neither my taste nor my principles. I thought it equally unsuitable to my personal character and to the station in which I am placed.

May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.