It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make be the difference of price what it may

The Christian God is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust

Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind.

The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.