Without books, I would certainly die.

Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.

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

Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.

Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc.

Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty.... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone into my 83rd year, reading one newspaper only and forgetting immediately what I read.

How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!