The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.