When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.

Anyone can produce a new fact

If you'll laugh about something one day, you may as well start now.

The impotence of God is infinite.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

I have fake eye lashes on and they feel like tarantulas. But they're not real tarantulas.

What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?

Kindness is never wasted.

I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.