“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain
“There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press
“The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.”
“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay
“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends
“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent
“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom
“A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp
“A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
“When earth breaks up and heaven expands, how will the change strike me and you in the house not made with hands?