Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get.

No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.