Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.

I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short.

Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.