Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.