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.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.