The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.

The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.