A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

I like to see the people awake and alert.

There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.