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

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

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

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

Never spend your money before you have it.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Take things always by their smooth handle.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

All good novelists have bad memories.

Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

Give me unexpected whether it is good or bad, I learn from it all. As you build or break me in the end, I will stand tall.

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.