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.

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

No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

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.