The key that unlocks a door is a key to keep if you want to go through that door again.

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

But the most dangerous Hypocrite in a Common-Wealth, is one who leaves the Gospel for the sake of the Law: A Man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole Country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law: And here the Clergy are in great Danger of being deceiv'd, and the People of being deceiv'd by the Clergy, until the Monster arrives to such Power and Wealth, that he is out of the reach of both, and can oppress the People without their own blind Assistance.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.