[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.