To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.

The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

... 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.