Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause: And I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of ⟨the present⟩ age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this Kind.

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.