My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.

To the security of a free Constitution it [knowledge] contributes in various ways: by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights, to discern and provide against invasions of them, to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority, between burdens proceeding from a disregard to their convenience and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of society.