No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty.

If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.