besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.
My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.
One insult pocketed soon produces another.
By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.
Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.