I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.