We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.