The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

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.