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.

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.