I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could as little make itself, that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.