"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."
"Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom."
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
"I cannot live without books."
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."