Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause: And I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of ⟨the present⟩ age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this Kind.

The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St foin seed, & that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills... Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where.