It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Ministers and merchants love nobody.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

The smell rewards the care.