The man who counts is the man who is decent and who makes himself felt as a force for decency, for cleanliness, for civic righteousness.

The only first-rate work is the work done by the man who does it for the sake of doing it well, who counts the deed itself as his reward.

Not one in a hundred of us is fit to be in the highest sense a productive scholar, but all of us are entirely fit to do decent service if we care to take the pains.

One piece of first-rate work is worth a thousand pieces of second-rate work.

When it comes to rendering service, that which counts chiefly with a college graduate, as with any other American citizen, is not intellect so much as what stands above mere power of body, or mere power of mind, but must in a sense include…

The only first-rate work is the work done by the man who does it for the sake of doing it well.

To you much has been given, and woe and shame to you if we cannot rightfully expect much from you in return.

The timid good man counts but little in the rough business of trying to do well the world's work.

If a man is strong in mind and body and misuses his strength then he becomes simply a foe to the body politic, to be hunted down by all decent men.

It appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Dismal River Forest Reserve.

The public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation.

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 17th January last, requesting information in regard to the fisheries on the coasts of the British North American Provinces, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents…

I deemed it advisable to issue, relative to an extraordinary session of the Senate on the 4th of March next.

I, Millard Fillmore, president of the United States, have considered it to be my duty to issue this my proclamation, revoking said call and hereby declaring that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene…

I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a consular convention concluded in this city on the 23d instant between the United States and His Majesty the Emperor of the French.

Although it is stipulated by the terms of the first article of the convention that the commissioner on the part of this Government shall be appointed by the President of the United States, it is not understood that this stipulation was…

I respectfully concur in the recommendation made by the Secretary.