Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them. ... This has in a great degree been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.