The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all the rights reserved to the States, and the consolidation in itself of all powers, foreign and domestic; and that, too, by constructions which, if legitimate, leave no limits to their power... It is but too evident that the three ruling branches of [the Federal government] are in combination to strip their colleagues, the State authorities, of the powers reserved by them, and to exercise themselves all functions foreign and domestic.