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

Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

...let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt...If the game runs sometime against us at home, we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself