For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important to every human being and the most incumbent on his study and investigation.

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.