It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.