The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.

The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.