I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'