Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind.

The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible

When I spoke to the Haller family to tell them the resolution was going to be passed, they were shocked and overwhelmed. A busload of descendants came in for the day when it was passed. It meant so much to them.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make be the difference of price what it may