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.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.