By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.