Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Nature has inclined us to love men.