Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way what is bad.

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.

With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of Heaven with Hell. England, like the earth, may be allowed to take the intermediate station.

That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place among possible things in this age and country.

For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known that providence would at an after day be so kind to any particular set of people as to furnish them with other means of extinguishing their fire than those of matrimony, he would have earnestly recmmended them to their practice.