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

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

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

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.

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

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

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.