We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.

We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.

The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by those of Aristocrats and Democrats, Cote Droite and Cote Gauche, Ultras and Radicals, Serviles and Liberals. The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.

I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will judge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.