| The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. |
| I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. |
| There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. |
| The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them. |
| I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. |
| Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. |
| I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. |
| How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. |
| The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. |
| The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. |