"...made a great part in the religious devotion of the times in which they were written; and it was this devotional st…"

"But there is another and great distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that i…"

"We live to improve, or we live in vain"

"This sacrifice of common sense is the certain badge which distinguishes slavery from freedom; for when men yield up t…"

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."

"A man who is so exceedingly civil that for the sake of quietude and a peaceable name will silently see the community …"

"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances ... that no human wisdom can cal…"

"Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime."

"And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship (for so you have been to me, and that in the day of danger) and…"

"Eloquence may strike the ear, but the language of poverty strikes the heart; the first may charm like music, but the …"