"It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth"

"Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting."

"Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late."

"Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."

"A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently."