I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.
A man ought to avow his opinions and defend them with boldness.
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
I wish I could lay down beside her and die too
God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.