I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

Don't spend your money till you have it.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

One generation cannot bind another.