Merchants have no country.

A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.