Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

The only security of all is in a free press.

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.