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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.

Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'

There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.

I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?

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