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

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.