I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

I cannot live without books.

In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it. For the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.

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.