Whoever Tells The Best Story Wins.

I Have Made It A Practice For Several Years To Read The Bible Through In The Course Of Every Year. I Usually Devote To This Reading The First Hour After I Rise Every Morning. As, Including The Apocrypha, It Contains About Fourteen Hundred Chapters, And As I Meet With Occasional Interruptions, When This Reading Is For Single Days, And Sometimes For Weeks, Or Even Months, Suspended, My Rule Is To Read Five Chapters Every Morning, Which Leaves An Allowance Of About One-forth Of The Time For Such Interruptions.

Our Constitution Rests On The Good Sense And The Respect Of The American People.

May Our Country Be Always Successful, But Whether Successful Or Otherwise, Always Right.

In The American Hemisphere The Cause Of Freedom And Independence Has Continued To Prevail, And If Signalized By None Of Those Splendid Triumphs Which Had Crowned With Glory Some Of The Preceding Years It Has Only Been From The Banishment Of All External Force Against Which The Struggle Had Been Maintained. The Shout Of Victory Has Been Superseded By The Expulsion Of The Enemy Over Whom It Could Have Been Achieved.

The Extremes Of Opulence And Of Want Are More Remarkable, And More Constantly Obvious, In [great Britain] Than In Any Other Place That I Ever Saw.