He who knows best knows how little he knows.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions.

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.