Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

All authority belongs to the people.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Delay is preferable to error.

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 can be done if we are always doing.

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I cannot live without books.

Cooperation is a state of mind. There is little hope of real progress until we make this discovery and act upon this knowledge.

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Music... the favorite passion of my soul.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.