There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I want in all cases to do right.

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.