[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated; and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action.

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.