As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.

The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance.