Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.

Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.