Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.