We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.