It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.