The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.