I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.