From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the most formidable dread at present and will be for many years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...

Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind

The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.

Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.

Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation