... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.

Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.

Of all exercises, walking is the best.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.