The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.