Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied and to do the most good for which it is capable.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.