I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful