An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoded to exercise, and weather should be little regarded. A person not sick will not be injured by getting wet. It is but taking a cold bath, which never gives a cold to any one. Brute animals are the most healthy, and they are exposed to all weather, and of men, those are healthiest who are the most exposed.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.

I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.