A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.

I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Health is the requisite after morality

It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own nightly dreams.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.