It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.

The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as pre-eminent specimens of logic, taste, and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

ours are the only farmers who can read Homer

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.