Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

Education is a nation's cheapest defence

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable.