I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.