Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.

A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.

Pillow my head on no guesses when I die.

God is making commerce His missionary.