Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

Experience is the mother of custom.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.