Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation.