Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an honest man.

Real firmness is good for anything strut is good for nothing.

With Malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.