I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

Everything yields to diligence.

All authority belongs to the people.

I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have.

The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.