Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.