What i value more than all things, good humor.

Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.

I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.