"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."
"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true."
"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
"A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect."
"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."
"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
"The more you say the less people remember. The fewer the words the greater the profit."
"I love my country better than my family but I love humanity better than my country."
"I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend with the generous energy of a father and with the exuberant affection of a mother."
"Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure."