Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

Reputation is the road to power

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.