Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.