An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Man is by his constitution a religious animal.
I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.