The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.

Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.

The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and we but obeyed them in pursuing undeviatingly the course they called for. It issued finally in that inestimable state of freedom which alone can ensure to man the enjoyment of his equal rights.

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.