It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.

We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.

The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.