We might have been a free and great people together.

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.