In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

A mind always employed is always happy.

It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.