Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.

From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.