Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.