But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?

What i value more than all things, good humor.

Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

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.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.