I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.

The more we bestow the richer we become.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.