The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits. Without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them.