All men are children, and of one family.

What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.

I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we donot teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual; however, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.