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

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.

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

I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us.