The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.

Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.