The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

As for the differences of opinion upon speculative questions, if we wait till they are reconciled, the action of human affairs must be suspended forever. But neither are we to look for perfection in any one man, nor for agreement among many.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.