Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.

The smell rewards the care.

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation