Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.

The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.