Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.

Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical.

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

The sun - my almighty physician.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.