"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

"I have no doubt but that the misery of the poor, in great cities, is one of the greatest misfortunes to society."

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."

"I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body a…"

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of…"