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

I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it; but I ascribe to years their share in it also.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.

I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.