If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.