“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.”

“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”

“In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance”

“While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.”

“I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.”

“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”

“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.”