I cannot live without books.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

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

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.

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