Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.