All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.
