If This Country Is Ever Demoralized, It

All My Life I Have Tried To Pluck A Thistle And Plant A Flower Wherever The Flower Would Grow In Thought And Mind.

I Am Much Indebted To The Good Christian People Of The Country For Their Constant Prayers And Consolations; And To No One Of Them, More Than To Yourself.

I Cannot Think That We Are Useless Or God Would Not Have Created Us.

If We Could First Know Where We Are, And Whither We Are Tending, We Could Then Better Judge What To Do, And How To Do It.

I Am An Optimist Because I Don't See The Point In Being Anything Else.