It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.

I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it; but I ascribe to years their share in it also.

The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope.