All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

The march of the human mind is slow.

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.