Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.