A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.

It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.