The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.

Health is value greater than studying.