The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

Health is value greater than studying.

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.