If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.