Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.