Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.