Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

There is but one art, to omit.

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest