Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

The only security of all is in a free press.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.