besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.

If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.

Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much further from that of the anti-federalists.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.