War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.

One man with courage is a majority.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.