Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!

Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.

One had rather have no opinion than a false one.

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body