"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."

"It is better to be alone than in bad company."

"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

"Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."

"There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."

"99% of failures come from people who make excuses."

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."

"Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice."