Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and to fall on somebody; it must take on those who have property to meet it, and probably on the less cautious part, who, not aware of the impending catastrophe, have suffered themselves to contract, or to be in debt, and must now sacrifice their property of a value many times the amount of the debt. We have been truly sowing the wind, and are now reaping the whirlwind.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.