"What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable."

"The English Bar is in a very great degree tedious, and, to say the least of it, somewhat uncertain. I look forward wi…"

"The more I see and hear, the more I conceive some clear, short, and firm declaration of the party necessary, separati…"

"There have been periods when the country heard with dismay that "the soldier was abroad." That is not the case now. L…"

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave."

"In my mind, he was guilty of no error he — was chargeable with no exaggeration — he was betrayed by his f…"

"Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties"

"The Bill, the whole Bill and nothing but the Bill."

"[He said] that might, slumbering in the arms of temperate freemen, which, though he hoped the fatal experiment never …"

"The corresponding Society, except about six members, consists of the most dispicable and brutal of mobs. Men whose ig…"