Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

...It is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design, cause, and effect up to an Ultimate Cause-a Fabricator of all things, from matter and motion-their Preserver and Regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms-and their Regenerator into new and other forms.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.