Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds of a whole people....The feeling of equality which they proudly cherish does not proceed from an ignorance of their station, but from the knowledge of their rights; and it is this knowledge which will render it so exceedingly difficult for any tyrant ever to triumph over the liberties of our country.

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.