_TWENTY-SIXTH_ The patriotic instinct of plain people. _TWENTY-SEVENTH_ The face of an old friend is like a ray of sunshine through dark and gloomy clouds. _TWENTY-EIGHTH_ Will anybody do your work for you? _TWENTY-NINTH_ My rightful masters, the American people. _THIRTIETH_ Should any one in any case be content that his oath shall go unkept on a merely unsubstantial controversy as to how it shall be kept? _THIRTY-FIRST_ The value of life is to improve one's condition. _FEBRUARY_ _Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed._ _FIRST_ Labor is like any other commodity in the market--increase the demand for it and you increase the price of it. _SECOND_ When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. _THIRD_ I say "try," for if we never try, we never succeed. _FOURTH_ The pioneer in any movement is not generally the best man to bring that movement to a successful issue. _FIFTH_ Defeat and failure make everything seem wrong. _SIXTH_ This nation cannot live on injustice. _SEVENTH_ Something had to be done, and, as there does not appear to be any one else to do it, I did it. _EIGHTH_ Poor parsons seem always to have large families. _NINTH_ If it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work you have indicated, is it not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to you? _TENTH_ I trust I shall be willing to do my duty, though it costs my life. _ELEVENTH_ I hope peace will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. _TWELFTH_ What there is of me is self-made. _THIRTEENTH_ I was young once, and I am sure I was never ungenerously thrust back. _FOURTEENTH_ Thank God for not making me a woman, but if He had, I suppose He would have made me just as ugly as He did, and no one would ever have tempted me. _FIFTEENTH_ You may say anything you like about me,--if that will help. _SIXTEENTH_ No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty--none less inclined to take, or touch, aught which they have not honestly earned. _SEVENTEENTH_ As our case is new, so we must think anew. _EIGHTEENTH_ I shall do less whenever I believe what I am doing hurts the cause; and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more helps the cause. _NINETEENTH_ No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. _TWENTIETH_ If I can learn God's will, I will do it. _TWENTY-FIRST_ It is the nature of the case, and no one is to blame. _TWENTY-SECOND_ Tell the whole truth. _TWENTY-THIRD_ He sticks through thick and thin,--I admire such a man. _TWENTY-FOURTH_ If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution,--certainly would if such right were a vital one. _TWENTY-FIFTH_