As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

Nature abhors annihilation.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.