Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that both have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this Government, and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error.

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

I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.

A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

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