I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.

Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.