What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.

For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity it self. Whatever passion enters into a sentence or decision, so far will there be in it a tincture of injustice. In short, justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind, that we may suppose her thoughts are wholly intent on the equity of a cause, without being diverted or prejudiced by objects foreign to it.