Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.

We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce.

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

Merchants have no country.

Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.