What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.

No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.