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.

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible ...it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.

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

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

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.