I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.