The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.