If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.