In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.