We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables.

Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: "I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination."

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

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