Health is value greater than studying.

The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.

If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.

The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.