Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.

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

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action; and especially, where it is to act ultimately and without appeal.