Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.