“Solitude and retirement cherish grief, employment and exertion are the only means of dissipating it.”

“The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.”

“Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.”

“While I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church because I support it from outside.”

“Solitude and retirement cherish grief, employment and exertion are the only means of dissipating it.”