The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.

TO BE is life's dilemma while facing the eternity of death.

Don't work for money, work to learn

Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

There are so many disagreements in the world, but I like the idea of people agreeing on something like art.

Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.