I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.