I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

...It is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design, cause, and effect up to an Ultimate Cause-a Fabricator of all things, from matter and motion-their Preserver and Regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms-and their Regenerator into new and other forms.

The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.