A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]

It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.

The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.

Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.

The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system