Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known that providence would at an after day be so kind to any particular set of people as to furnish them with other means of extinguishing their fire than those of matrimony, he would have earnestly recmmended them to their practice.

Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.

It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.