How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.