The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.