The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.