William Seward: “Without strength, and activity and vigor of body, the brightest mental excellencies will be eclipsed and obscured.”

But power, confessedly derived from the people, must be exercised in obedience to their will, and must be resigned to them again, at least in death.

It depends not on the zeal and firmness only of the reformers, but on their wisdom and moderation also.

The recital of heroic actions loses its chief value, if we cannot discover the principles in which they were born.

Stoicism, that had no charity for error, never converted any human society to virtue; Christianity, that remembers the true nature of man, has encompassed a large portion of the globe.