"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love an…"

"It [hereditary succession] appears under all the various characters of childhood, decrepitude, dotage, a thing at nurse, in leading-strings, or in crutches. It reverses the wholesome order of nature. …"

"Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived."

"The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately."

"The independence of America, considered merely as a commercial object, is an object of no inconsiderable magnitude."