Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is anact of force, and not of right.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.