American Cicero

From American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll:

Would it not be very odd for a man to know Greek and Latin and not be able to describe the Position of any Noted place or Kingdom, or to Add, Multiply, or Divide a Sum. - Charles Carroll of Annapolis, letter to Charles Carroll, Sept. 30, 1754

Religious persecution, I own, is bad, but civil persecution is still more irksome: the one is quite insupportable, the other is alleviated by superior motives which tho' they can not diminish the real evil, yet enable us to bear it with greater resignation. - Charles Carrol, letter to Charles Carroll of Annapolis, Feb. 30, 1760

 I find no conversation more agreable than that of a Horace's a Virgil's a Racine's &c, their company is instructive and at the same time agreable. - Charles Carroll, letter to parents, June 14, 1758