For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

I row after health like a waterman.