The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

Ministers and merchants love nobody.

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.