“What Comfort can the Vortices of Descartes give to a Man who has Whirlwinds in his bowels!”

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

“He who can have patience can have what he will.”

“No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.”

“What condition of man most deserves pity?" - Franklin offered: "A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.”

“All the property that is necessary to a man for the conservation of the individual and his propagation of the species is his natural right, which none can justly deprive him of; but all property superfluous to such purposes is the property of the public, who by their laws have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the welfare of the public shall demand such disposition. He that does not like civil society on these terms, let him retire and live among savages.”

“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.”