Education is a nation's cheapest defence

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.