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

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a pre-eminence by birth.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.