You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.

I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.

It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the shortest route to get it. They cleave to the things of this world as if assured they will never die, and yet rush to snatch any that comes within their reach, as if they expected to stop living before relishing them. Death steps in, in the end, and stops them, before they have grown tired of this futile pursuit of that complete felicity which always escapes them.

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of the press is the capital and so to speak the constitutive element of freedom.

In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.