"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…"

"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 …"

"Do you think that a reporter has a right to supply or suppress any part of a judgment?"

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