The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!

A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.

My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

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