Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity!

If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today

Nothing preaches better than the act.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.