We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.
The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!