The great creative individual...is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet may have lightened the days toil of any human being.

Leaving things to the government, like leaving them to providence, is synonymous with not caring about them.

Nothing contributes more to nourish elevation of sentiments in a people, than the large and free character of their habitations.

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good the themselves, than by compelling each other to live as seems good to the rest.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety nine who have only interests.

Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for injury.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.