I agree with you entirely in condemning the mania of giving names to objects of any kind after persons still living. Death alone can seal the title of any man to this honor, by putting it out of his power to forfeit it.
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
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