Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.

ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.