Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act granting those rights] or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system.