Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.