I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself