It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

On second thought, it's a good thing love is blind otherwise it would see too much.

Never contradict anybody.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.