Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not.

He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.

In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.