Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we shall never give up our Union, the last anchor of our hope, and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators.

Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind

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