Religion Is A Temper, Not A Pursuit.

[on Being Deaf:] How Much Less Pain There Is In Calmly Estimating The Enjoyments From Which We Must Separate Ourselves, Of Bravely Saying, For Once And For Ever, 'let Them Go,' Than In Feeling Them Waste And Dwindle, Till Their Very Shadows Escape From Our Grasp!

In The United States, As Elsewhere, There Are, And Have Always Been, Two Parties In Politics ... It Is Remarkable How Nearly Their Positive Statements Of Political Doctrine Agree, While They Differ In Almost Every Possible Application Of Their Common Principles.

It Is Hard To Tell Which Is Worse; The Wide Diffusion Of Things That Are Not True, Or The Suppression Of Things That Are True.

I Would Not Exchange My Freedom From Old Superstition, If I Were To Be Burned At The Stake Next Month, For All The Peace And Quiet Of Orthodoxy, If I Must Take The Orthodoxy With Peace And Quiet.

The Last Thing It [government] Ought To Do Is To Ground Its Proceedings On The Ignorance Of The People, - To Yield Them That Which They Will Hereafter Despise The Donors For Granting Them.