Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.

Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.

All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.