I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible.

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.