Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.

There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.