Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are themselves evidences that human language, whether in speech or print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God.

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.