"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from December to March, inclusive, she is to be found in the bare ruin of her winter, as truly beautiful as in the full bloom of sum…"

"The older I grow, the more I dislike the cant of all kinds, and especially religious cant."

"I have no faith in the wisdom of any government that is not based upon the popular will."

"I have always been of the opinion that the best thing a man can do is to keep his own counsel."

"I am not a man who has any great respect for the law, when the law is a ass."