I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.

The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no God at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.