Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.