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

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

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.

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