Sarah lied about me. I never made the offer which she said I did. I will not advise you to break up your family - unless it were asked of me. Then I would council you to get a bill from your wife and marry a virtuous woman - and a new family but if you do not do it I shall never throw it in your teeth.

Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.

Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire.

If I lose my life in a good cause I am willing to be sacrificed on the altar of virtue, righteousness and truth, in maintaining the laws and Constitution of the United States, if need be, for the general good of mankind.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge. For if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world, as evil spirits will have more knowledge, and consequently more power.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.