"I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."

"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us."

"I have not ceased to be a whole-hearted admirer of the American experiment."

"I think myself that we are over-governed, and that the best government is that which governs least."

"The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us."