I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.