Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.