Try And Fail,but Don't Fail To Try.

Is It Not That In The Chain Of Human Events, The Birthday Of A Nation Is Indissolubly Linked With The Birthday Of The Savior? That It Forms A Leading Event In The Progress Of The Gospel Dispensation? Is It Not That The Declaration Of Independence First Organized The Social Compact On The Foundation Of The Redeemer’s Mission Upon Earth? That It Laid The Cornerstone Of Human Government Upon The First Precepts Of Christianity?

The Law Given From Sinai Was A Civil And Municipal As Well As A Moral And Religious Code.

My Custom Is To Read Four Or Five Chapters Of The Bible Every Morning Immediately After Rising. It Seems To Me The Most Suitable Manner Of Beginning The Day. It Is An Invaluable And Inexhaustible Mine Of Knowledge And Virtue.

It Is Essential..that You Should Form And Adopt Certain Rules Or Principles, For The Government Of Your Own Conduct And Temper. Unless You Have Such Rules And Principles, There Will Be Numberless Occasions On Which You Will Have No Guide For Your Government But Your Passions..it Is In The Bible, You Must Learn Them, And From The Bible How To Practice Them.

To Live Without Having A Cicero And A Tacitus At Hand Seems To Me As If It Was Aprivation Of One Of My Limbs.