An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.