Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more instructed race comes on, the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive, and a fourth, a fifth, or some subsequent one of the ever renewed attempts will ultimately succeed... To attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass over; yet the object is worth rivers of blood and years of desolation. For what inheritance so valuable can man leave to his posterity?

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.