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.

I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.

The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

The people are not always well-informed, but is better that they have misconceptions that make them restless than that they be lethargic-for lethargy in the people means death for republics.

The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.