It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

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.

It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.