If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase.

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught but I hold in the most profound detestation and execration the corruptions of it which have been invented.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.