Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.

The smell rewards the care.

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established . . . are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.