If all my talents and powers were to be taken from me by some unscrutable Providence, and I had my choice of keeping but one, I would unhesitatingly ask for be allowed to keep the Power of Speaking, for through it I would quickly recover all the rest.

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by the laws which regulate its transmission and alienation, as to interest the great majority of society in the protection of the government.