In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.