I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.

Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.