The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

We know the redemption must come.

The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.