If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

What can laws do without morals?

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.