Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.

The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.