Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.