I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.

It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.