The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

The religion of Jesus is founded in the Unity of God, and this principle chiefly gave it triumph over the rabble of heathen gods then acknowledged. Thinking men of all nations rallied readily to the doctrine of one only God, and embraced it with the pure-morals which Jesus inculcated.

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.