I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.

The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.