Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.

He that's secure is not safe.

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.