No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.