Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom of their souls. And I am satisfied that were our continent to be swallowed up by the ocean, Great Britain would be in a bonfire from one end to the other.

Government governed least is government governed best.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of evey other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.