The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.

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

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.