No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of their views.
I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.
The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.