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

In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.

Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of [any difficult situation] in the easiest manner possible.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country