Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.

A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.