Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of their views.

But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.