All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.