Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.
Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.
The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources that we have available to us.
It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.
Unfortunately something always has to go by the wayside.
Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.