The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.

A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.

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

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own nightly dreams.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!