I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.