In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence

Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.

I do not want to promise but I do not think I will be an active participant in the present election campaign.

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.