Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

By [the] operations [of public improvement] new channels of communication will be opened between the States; the lines of separation will disappear, their interests will be identified, and their union cemented by new and indissoluble ties.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

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

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.