“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

“. . . The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.”

“Half a loaf is better than no bread”

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

“A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.”

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

“I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.”