Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise.

We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?

A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.