The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.