The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

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.

I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too slender, and is too much divided into other sects to maintain any one preacher well. I must therefore be contented to be an Unitarian by myself, although I know there are many around me who would become so, if once they could hear the questions fairly stated.