One source of the sublime is infinity.

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

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.