Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.