It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it.

It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens they are roused to action. Hence it is that those kinds of government are so slow.

It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.