Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern.

This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

A lawyer once told a jury that the person his client stood accused of having killed was about to walk through the courtroom door. When the jurors looked startled, the lawyer asserted that if those jurors had wondered, even for one second that the victim might appear, that belief constituted enough reasonable doubt for them to find his client innocent.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.