Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.