True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.