"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."

"The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn."

"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book."

"When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!"

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."