I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.