Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

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

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.