Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

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

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.

By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

ours are the only farmers who can read Homer

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.