There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.

Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.