The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of their desires are changed; what they were fond of before has become indifferent; they were free while under the restraint of laws, but they would fain now be free to act against law.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.