He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

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.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.

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