- Delay is preferable to error.
- A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
- Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
- Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
- Never spend your money before you have it.
- It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
- Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
- 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.