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

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I believe it to be one of those cases where mercantile clamor will bear down reason, until it is corrected by ruin.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed to suppression and control by governmental authority see this as leading only to chaos. But a government of the people requires difference of opinion in order to discover truth and to take advantage of the opportunity that only understanding brings.