The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.