I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.

In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.