My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold.

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.

To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.