“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.”

“[A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.”

“There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.”

“Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.”

“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”

“Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will giveyou a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.”