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.

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.

The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.