I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.

Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind, my prayers & efforts shall be cordially distributed to the support of that we have so happily established. It is indeed an animating thought that, while we are securing the rights of ourselves & our posterity, we are pointing out the way to struggling nations who wish, like us, to emerge from their tyrannies also. Heaven help their struggles, and lead them, as it has done us, triumphantly thro' them.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible.