Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.