Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.