A True Man Of Honor Feels Humbled

My Experiences Of Men Has Neither Disposed Me To Think Worse Of Them Nor Be Indisposed To Serve Them: Nor, In Spite Of Failures Which I Lament, Of Errors Which I Now See And Acknowledge, Or The Present Aspect Of Affairs, Do I Despair Of The Future. The Truth Is This: The March Of Providence Is So Slow And Our Desires So Impatient; The Work Of Progress So Immense And Our Means Of Aiding It So Feeble; The Life Of Humanity Is So Long, That Of The Individual So Brief, That We Often See Only The Ebb Of The Advancing Wave And Are Thus Discouraged. It Is History That Teaches Us To Hope.

Private And Public Life Are Subject To The Same Rules-truth And Manliness Are Two Qualities That Will Carry You Through This World Much Better Than Policy Or Tact Of Expediency Or Other Words That Were Devised To Conceal A Deviation From A Straight Line.

A Nation Which Does Not Remember What It Was Yesterday Does Not Know Where It Is Today.

Remember, We Are All One Country Now. Dismiss From Your Mind All Sectional Feeling, And Bring Them Up To Be Americans.

No Day Should Be Lived Unless It Was Begun With A Prayer Of Thankfulness And An Intercession For Guidance.