Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.

I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many.

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.