The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life.

It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.

Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.