Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.

There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.