When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.