All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.