The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.
“There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.”
“Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.”