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

[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.