Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.