The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

As government grows, freedom recedes.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.

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