The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

A book is the only immortality.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.