Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Duty is ours, results are God's.

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.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

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

Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

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