No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

I advance it therefore [...] that the blacks [...] are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.