Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal, but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely called for, are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country, and some of them to its preservation.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation.