The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.

In the great and deep qualities of mind, heart, and soul, there is no change. Homer and Solomon speak to the same nature in man that is reached by Shakespeare and Lincoln. but in the accidents, the surroundings, the change is vast. All things now are mobile--movable.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power

The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.