Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

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!

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.