- "Nothing... is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man."
- "Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice."
- Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
- Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
- I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
- Never spend your money before you have it.
- Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
- Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
- The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
- The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
- We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
- I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
- Health is worth more than learning.
- If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
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