Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.
When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.
I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.
The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.
What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.
It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.
Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.
It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.
Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.
That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.
We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.
How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!