Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame . . . and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.