We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

Our trade opens to all the world.

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.

The worst form of snobbery is to deny information

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

If we love God, we will love another. Love is God.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

I'd rather stay away from the limelight. Not because I'm trying to be a good boy and all that stuff. I just love quiet.

One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.