The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

When you are doubting whether a thing is worth the trouble of going to see, recollect that you will never again be so near it. You may repent not having seen it, but you can never repent having seen it.

The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.