While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.

Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter